stillgotgame wrote:KidA24 wrote:blazza18 wrote:Credit to Jon Horst for only hiring coaches he didn't want.
It's not Hammond's fault. It's Kohl!
Owners are gonna meddle, it happens. If Griffin’s hiring was to keep Giannis happy then they made the best business decision. Unfortunately business still comes before basketball.
Yeah, Horst put out that article to save some face.
I keep repeating this but, Giannis did not wake up one morning and said **** you all I'll pick a random coach. The front office and by extension Horst, took supposedly a good hard look at the available coaches and came up with a final shortlist of supposedly championship-caliber coaches that somehow involved Adrian Griffin.
Giannis may have endorsed Griffin(not chose), but how the hell did our front office even think of putting Griffin in that list?
And if people remmeber, Nick Nurse pulled out before the actual process was complete, probably because at the time, coaching the 76ers looked like a better proposition(Embiid, Harden, Maxey).
And let's not forget that Nick Nurse with a healthy 76ers team is about to be gentleman swept by the Knicks, missing their starting center(Mitchell Robinson) and power forward(Julius Randle), and would be aleady swept if Embiid was thrown out of the game they won, as he should have been, for grabbing Robinson's feet and injuring him.